Bottas breaks track record and heads FP1 at Silverstone

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Mercedes Valtteri Bottas picked up where he left off in Austria last week, clocking in Friday morning at Silverstone with the fastest lap in FP1.

With a 1:29.106, the Finn beat the track’s lap record, set by team mate Lewis Hamilton in Q2 last year.

The Brit was right on the heels of Bottas however, ending the session just 0.078 behind. Both drivers relied on Pirelli’s Soft compound to set their fastest times.

The German squad’s performance was rather ominous given that Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo were about half a second adrift but on the theoretically faster Supersoft tyres.

It was a rather scrappy session for Ferrari, with both Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel  appearing to struggle for grip, the latter spinning and forcing him into the pits for a tyre change.

Toro Rosso’s Dany Kvyat was P7, just in front of Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa. Both McLaren drivers made it into the top ten, with Stoffel Vandoorne rounding out the group.

Ferrari reserve driver Antonio Giovinazzi slotted in for Kevin Magnussen at Haas and ended the session P16, four-tenths of a second off team mate Romain Grosjean.

British Grand Prix – Free Practice 1 results

Pos Driver Team Time Gap Laps

1
Valtteri Bottas
Mercedes
1:29.106s

29

2
Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes
1:29.184s
+ 0.078s

29

3
Max Verstappen
Red Bull
1:29.604s
+ 0.498s

26

4
Daniel Ricciardo
Red Bull
1:29.942s
+ 0.836s

19

5
Kimi Räikkönen
Ferrari
1:30.137s
+ 1.031s

19

6
Sebastian Vettel
Ferrari
1:30.517s
+ 1.411s

19

7
Daniil Kvyat
Toro Rosso
1:30.895s
+ 1.789s

21

8
Fernando Alonso
McLaren
1:30.993s
+ 1.887s

20

9
Felipe Massa
Williams
1:30.999s
+ 1.893s

26

10
Stoffel Vandoorne
McLaren
1:31.041s
+ 1.935s

27

11
Carlos Sainz
Toro Rosso
1:31.200s
+ 2.094s

24

12
Esteban Ocon
Force India
1:31.210s
+ 2.104s

32

13
Sergio Pérez
Force India
1:31.297s
+ 2.191s

34

14
Romain Grosjean
Haas
1:31.610s
+ 2.504s

24

15
Lance Stroll
Williams
1:31.684s
+ 2.578s

24

16
Antonio Giovinazzi
Haas
1:32.031s
+ 2.925s

24

17
Nico Hülkenberg
Renault
1:32.171s
+ 3.065s

19

18
Jolyon Palmer
Renault
1:32.450s
+ 3.344s

16

19
Pascal Wehrlein
Sauber
1:33.029s
+ 3.923s

23

20
Marcus Ericsson
Sauber
1:33.399s
+ 4.293s

26

 

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